Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Natural Resources Committee Bills & Legislation

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Us Congress House Bill HB130

Introduced
1/3/25  
Trust the Science Act This bill directs the Department of the Interior to remove protections for the gray wolf under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA). Specifically, the bill requires Interior to reissue the final rule titled Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Removing the Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) From the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and published on November 3, 2020. The rule removed the gray wolf in the lower 48 United States, except for the Mexican wolf (C. l. baileyi) subspecies, from the endangered and threatened species list. However, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California vacated the rule on February 10, 2022. As a result, the gray wolf reattained the protection status it had prior to the rule's promulgation. The bill also prohibits the reissuance of the rule from being subject to judicial review.
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Us Congress House Bill HB167

Introduced
1/3/25  
Community Reclamation Partnerships Act of 2025This bill revises the Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Program, which restores land and water adversely impacted by surface coal mines that were abandoned before August 3, 1977.Until September 30, 2032, the bill allows a state with an approved reclamation program to enter into a memorandum of understanding with relevant federal or state agencies for remediating mine drainage on abandoned mine land and water impacted by abandoned mines.In addition, the bill authorizes a partnership between a state and a community reclaimer for remediating abandoned mine land if certain conditions are met. A community reclaimer is a person who (1) voluntarily assists a state in a reclamation project, (2) did not participate in the creation of site conditions at the proposed site or activities that caused any land or waters at the site to become eligible for reclamation or drainage abatement expenditures, and (3) is not subject to outstanding violations of surface coal mining permits.
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Us Congress House Bill HB41

Introduced
1/3/25  
Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation ActThis bill allows five Alaska Native communities in Southeast Alaska to form urban corporations and receive land entitlements.Specifically, the bill allows the Alaska Native residents of each of the Alaska Native villages of Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Tenakee, and Wrangell, Alaska, to organize as Alaska Native urban corporations and to receive certain settlement land.The bill directs the Department of the Interior to convey specified land to each urban corporation. Further, Interior must convey the subsurface estate for that land to the regional corporation for Southeast Alaska.The land conveyed to each urban corporation must include any U.S. interest in all roads, trails, log transfer facilities, leases, and appurtenances on or related to the land conveyed to the urban corporation.The bill also allows each urban corporation to establish a settlement trust to (1) promote the health, education, and welfare of the trust beneficiaries; and (2) preserve the Alaska Native heritage and culture of their communities.
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Us Congress House Bill HB106

Introduced
1/3/25  
Less Imprecision in Species Treatment Act of 2025 or the LIST Act of 2025This bill modifies the process for removing a species from the endangered or threatened species lists and makes related requirements. A species must be removed from the endangered or threatened species lists if the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service produces or receives substantial scientific or commercial information demonstrating that the species is recovered or that recovery goals set for the species have been met.The publication and notice of a proposed regulation to remove a species from the lists must consist solely of a notice of the removal.The bill establishes a process for removing species from the lists if they were erroneously or wrongfully listed. The bill prohibits a person from submitting a petition to list a species as a threatened or endangered species for 10 years if the person knowingly submitted a petition with information that was inaccurate beyond scientifically reasonable margins of error, fraudulent, or misrepresentative.
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Us Congress House Bill HB103

Introduced
1/3/25  
Congressional Border Security Assessment ActThis bill grants Members of Congress and their accompanying staff lawful access to Indian reservations for the purpose of assessing national security, public safety, and the security of the border. Specifically, the bill applies to an Indian reservation that includes 50 or more contiguous miles of the U.S.-Mexico border. 
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Us Congress House Bill HB191

Introduced
1/3/25  
Inflation Reduction Act of 2025This bill repeals the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and rescinds any unobligated funds made available by the act.
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Us Congress House Bill HB105

Introduced
1/3/25  
Increasing Public Access to Recreation ActThis bill increases the amount made available from the Land and Water Conservation Fund for recreational public access projects on federal land.
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Us Congress House Bill HB65

Introduced
1/3/25  
Armed Forces Endangered Species Exemption ActThis bill establishes exemptions from the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) for defense-related operations.First, the bill prohibits the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) from designating military installations or state-owned National Guard installations as critical habitat under the ESA. It also prohibits FWS and NMFS from designating other lands, waters, or geographical areas as critical habitats if the Department of Defense (DOD) determines that the areas are necessary for military training, weapons testing, or other reasons. While DOD must submit such determinations in writing to the FWS, DOD is not required to consult with the FWS under the ESA about such determinations. Next, the bill exempts military personnel engaged in national defense-related operations (actions or duties that DOD deems necessary to support its mission) from ESA prohibitions on (1) taking (e.g., harming or killing) of endangered species or threatened species; (2) importing or exporting such species; and (3) damaging, destroying, removing, cutting, or digging up such species. Further, the bill exempts any injury to or mortality of a threatened or endangered species that results from, but is not the purpose of, a national defense-related operation.The term military personnel means a member of the Armed Forces as well as a civilian employee or contractor of (1) DOD; or (2) any other federal agency, or any provisional authority, to the extent such employment relates to supporting the mission of DOD overseas.
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Us Congress House Bill HB325

Introduced
1/9/25  
This bill designates the peak of Frenchman Mountain in Nevada as the Maude Frazier Mountain.
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Us Congress House Bill HB261

Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Undersea Cable Protection Act of 2025
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Us Congress House Bill HB337

Introduced
1/13/25  
This bill modifies the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to allow unobligated balances of amounts made available to the Bureau of Reclamation for western water infrastructure to be made available to Reclamation for FY2026-2031 to provide financial or technical assistance for (1) groundwater recharge projects, (2) aquifer storage and recovery projects, or (3) water source substitution for aquifer protection projects.
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Us Congress House Bill HB345

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/13/25  
Fire Department Repayment Act of 2025
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Us Congress House Bill HB338

Introduced
1/13/25  
Every Drop Counts ActThis bill expands the Bureau of Reclamation's Small Storage Program, which is a grant program for small surface water or groundwater storage projects in certain western states.First, the bill expands the types of projects that are eligible for grants under the program. Specifically, the bill makes a project eligible for a grant if the project (1) has water storage capacity of recharges no less than 200 acre-feet and no more than 150,000 acre-feet on an average annual basis over the life of the project for storage or use; and (2) increases groundwater aquifer storage, conveys water to or recovers water from groundwater storage, and stabilizes groundwater levels.Next, it extends Reclamation's authority to carry out the grant program for another five years.
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Us Congress House Bill HB347

Introduced
1/13/25  
Sea Turtle Rescue Assistance and Rehabilitation Act of 2025This bill expands the John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue and Response Grant Program to include separate grants to rescue sea turtles for the next seven years. The grants must be used forthe recovery, care, or treatment of sick, injured, or entangled sea turtles;responses to rescue stranded sea turtles;the collection of data and samples from living or dead stranded sea turtles for scientific research or health assessments;facility operating costs that are directly related to activities to assist sea turtles; or development of stranding network capacity where facilities do not exist or are sparse.In addition, the bill establishes the Sea Turtle Rescue, Rehabilitation, and Rapid Response Fund.
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Us Congress House Bill HB360

Introduced
1/13/25  
Oyster Reef Recovery Act of 2025